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Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
My mother would say it is literally ghost writers
who come to me
(Tan is the author of what became read more
My mother would say it is literally ghost writers
who come to me
(Tan is the author of what became The Joy Luck Club).
But ask now the beasts, any they shall teach thee; and the fowls
of the air, and they shall read more
But ask now the beasts, any they shall teach thee; and the fowls
of the air, and they shall tell thee:
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes
of the sea shall declare unto thee.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are read more
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing read more
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
The first duty of a lecturer--to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up read more
The first duty of a lecturer--to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university read more
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
